Spaces in path name problem

Question

Dear all,
It seems that spaces in path names generally are a bit of a problem. However, I haven't found a solution. I am trying to create a file like this:
File m_outFile = new File(m_inFile.getAbsolutePath() + "_out");The path to m_inFile has a space, so I get a FileNotFoundException. I tried surrounding the path name with quotes like this:
File m_outFile = new File("\"" + m_inFile.getAbsolutePath() + "_out" + "\"");That didn't work either. Any ideas how to best deal with this? Thanks a lot in advance.
Cheers,
N.

Answer 1

Thanks a lot for the replies!
I ran some detailed tests and it turns out that the space in the path is indeed the problem, however not for the actual file creation, but rather for the XML transformation. I should have mentioned that the file that causes the problem serves as the source for a javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult, sorry about that.
The actual FileNotFoundException is thrown when doing the transformation from a DOM object like this:
DOMSource Xsource = new DOMSource(doc);
Result dest = new StreamResult(m_outFile);
transformer.transform(Xsource, dest);I ran some test with the following two path variants:
m_outFile = new File(File.separator + "spacetest" + File.separator + "Test.xml");
m_outFile = new File(File.separator + "space test" + File.separator + "Test.xml");The exception is thrown only in the second case, where the directory name has a space in it. The message reads:
java.io.FileNotFoundException: F:\space%20test\Test.xml (The system can't find the given path)This makes sense, since apparently the space gets converted to "%20" somewhere along the way.
So, it boils down to the question, how can I make the transformer use the correct path name? Adding quotes to the path doesn't help.
Cheers,
N.